Photos: Intel showcases new technology at IDF 2009

The show is Intel's flagship event to announce new technology, tout its vision, and persuade computing partners to see things Intel's way.

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Intel's Sean Maloney

Sean Maloney, newly promoted and heir apparent to CEO Paul Otellini in the eyes of many, was the first to take the stage at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday. The show is Intel's flagship event to announce new technology, tout its vision, and persuade computing partners to see things Intel's way.

First look at 32nm transistor

Otellini and the 22nm wafer

CEO Paul Otellini showed off Intel's first wafer of silicon chips made with a next-next-generation 22-nanometer manufacturing process. These chips were SRAM memory chips often used to get new manufacturing processes debugged. The 22nm chips aren't due to arrive until 2011.

Second 22-nanometer process

Bill Baker, who leads Intel manufacturing, pulled out a second wafer of prototype chips built with its upcoming 22-nanometer process. Otellini's wafer showed SRAM memory chips designed for high density, with each memory cell taking up 0.092 square microns. Baker showed this wafer that showed the process adjusted for lower voltage and power consumption, with each cell taking up 0.108 square microns.

Jasper Forest chip

Intel announced "Jasper Forest," a variation of its Nehalem EP server processor designed specifically for storage devices. The chip has a built-in PCI Express interface to speed access to the storage and networking systems.

Nehalem EX servers

Maloney, taking the place of departed colleague Pat Gelsinger, showed off compact servers using the eight-core Nehalem EX processor and jammed with large quantities of memory. These systems are from IBM, Supermicro, SGI, and Intel itself.

Larrabee graphics demo

Intel on Tuesday debuted its Larrabee graphics chip, which uses many stripped-down x86 cores to process data. At left is Intel's senior research scientist Bill Mark in front of a demonstration of live ray-traced video. To watch the video, check the Larrabee graphics debut story.